Tina Toon PDIP Asks Anies To Increase River Normalization Budget: For 4 Years Nothing Has Been Done

Tina Toon (Picture: IG @tinatoon101)

JAKARTA - The PDIP faction of the DKI DPRD has asked DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan to increase the budget for the river normalization program next year. Because, during the four years he led, Anies had never worked on this program.

In this case, the DKI Provincial Government has proposed a budget of IDR 1.2 trillion in the 2022 APBD draft which will be used for normalization of land acquisition.

This was conveyed by members of the PDIP Faction Agustina Hermanto or Tina Toon in the general view of the PDIP Faction against the Jakarta Regional Regulation on the Regional Budget for the 2022 fiscal year.

"Although it's late because for the last 4 years, the Provincial Government has not done any normalization, we encourage this budget to be increased in 2022," said Tina at the DKI DPRD building, Tuesday, November 16.

In order to increase the normalization budget, Tina advised Anies to remove the budget for constructing infiltration wells or vertical drainage because they are considered not very influential in controlling Jakarta floods.

"We recommend programs that are unclear, such as infiltration wells, to be removed and the budget allocated for river normalization," said Tina. Tina reminded the DKI Provincial Government about the importance of river normalization. According to him, climate change and the La Nina phenomenon can increase the threat of hydrometeorological disasters.

"We can feel the impact of climate change and also the impact of La Nina, that floods appear earlier every year, the more threatening flooding in Jakarta makes us have to work harder in thinking about the best solution so that the capital city can reduce the impact of floods that often occur. " he concluded.